Born a 10th generation Oregonian, (5 generations on each side) I have an enthusiasm for learning and teaching new things. After a ten year mini career in the dental field I moved on to research and embraced the social web. Though the internet is far too large for any one person to claim to be an expert, I can hold my own with the latest trends.
I enjoy researching and writing blogs. As the "Internet Program Director" for myMotherLode.com since 2008, I update the website and have a wide variety of interests. There is always something entertaining, educational or inspirational to share.
It’s unfortunate that, while trying to stop fossil fuels development, climate activists are, at the same time, blocking efforts to mine minerals such as copper and gold or ban lithium brine extraction all of which are essential to building electric cars and the batteries to run them. You just can’t have it both ways.
In California, one half of one percent of taxpayers paid 40% of the state’s income tax in 2019. That’s twice as bad as at the federal level where, nationally, it’s the top one percent that pays 40% of federal income tax.
The recent conference of financial poohbahs in Davos, Switzerland has been called the World Economic forum “Where billionaires gather to tell millionaires how to live.”
Judge Douglas Ginsberg in commenting on the “genius” of representative democracy notes that “We’re all disappointed on some aspects and satisfied on some other, and we accept that as authoritative because it was reached through a democratic process.” And, we would add, that’s the problem when a President, ANY President, whether Democrat or Republican, governs through fiat by executive order. The democratic process is taken out of the equation.
